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...still doesn't see protecting the homeland as a priority. Flynn, a retired U.S. Coast Guard commander and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, says our leaders harbor the delusion that the real fight against terrorism is overseas. In the meantime, the U.S. has made scant progress in protecting its own infrastructure. Having spent years visiting America's high-risk targets, Flynn offers a damning assessment and some solutions as well...
...would be making military service compulsory. But former adf chief Admiral Chris Barrie believes that within 20 years Australia won't have enough young people to sustain an all-volunteer military. Conscription "is not a question of if," he says, "it's a question of when." He's found scant agreement among defense experts and none among politicians. But, says Ross Babbage, head of the defense think tank the Kokoda Foundation, "a problem is coming, and we can't afford to neglect...
...does not rest on our shoulders, but on those of Harvard’s administrators who put innumerable barriers on our path to success. From funding only the second biggest library in the world (how can Harvard accept being beaten by the Library of Congress!) to giving us a scant two-and-a-half hours to eat dinner, the administration systematically inhibits our growth from ignorant teens into wizened adults. Worst of all, our absurdly long reading period creates so many enticements that even a Harvard student must succumb to, god forbid, a social life. We have had to endure...
...scant free time, Gomes is working on the third volume, “The Good News: From the Bible to the Gospel,” of his series. The first two books, “The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart” and “The Good Life: Truths that Last in Times of Need,” were best sellers...
...claims of gender discrimination in academia appear overstated.Much has been made of those hypotheses and their relative merits in the year since Summers and his critics brought them into national view. And the notes, which closely mirror the transcript of his remarks that was released a month later, shed scant new light on the president’s thinking.But perhaps the most significant line of the speech did not appear anywhere in the president’s notes and went largely unnoticed in the ensuing uproar. It was his very first sentence.Summers began with a nod to Richard Freeman...